Missed opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (31 May 2003)

The idea of this movie is an ancient one. All people have been reduced to walking dead out to get the few survivors (i.e. non infected). Although that's always a good thing for a horror movie, every chance is missed in this script. I do not mind the story being implausible, but then give me some good horror (and don't pretend reality). The only good thing is the cinematography. I suspect that this was why the film was made. An emptied London looks very good. You could classify it as a comedy when the surviving British soldiers make it their top priority to get women after most of their countrymen are slayed. Unfortunately it is not a good drama (weak story), not a good horror (one eye poking after at least one hour), not a good sci-fi (impossible and illogical story). It creeps up to three out of ten points for the technical quality of the film making, but in my view it was a waste of time and money. For a British movie this is worse since there is no too much money outside LA.